Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

Press+ is a service that assists news organizations in charging for content online.

Press+ is not designed to implement a particular paid-content model. Brill and Crovitz said in Press+’s early days that the tool has 16 options for paid content, and they were working with clients on models ranging from partly free metered websites to micropayments, donations, and full paywalls. More recently, Press+ reported that all of its active affiliates had chosen some form of metered model, though the types of meters vary.

Before its sale, the company talked of plans to charge a 20 percent commission based on online paid-content revenue.

MediaNews has instituted a metered model that allows a limited number of free articles each month. A Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper is adding a similar model to charge readers from outside the paper’s geographical area. ProPublica and Poynter are using the service to solicit donations, and the international news startup GlobalPost is using it to solicit donations and memberships.

NBCNews.com was a website launched in July 2012 after Microsoft and NBCUniversal dissolved the jointly owned and operated MSNBC.com. The site contained MSNBC TV content until MSNBC relaunched its own MSNBC.com site in 2013. NBC relaunched NBCNews.com in 2014 with an emphasis on original digital video. Previously, msnbc.com was corporately separate from the cable channel MSNBC,…

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